Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 21
From the light of heaven, and from the society of all beings shalt thou be driven; solitude shall protract the lingering hours of eternity, and darkness aggravate the horrors of despair.”
Who acts: solitude · What happens: drive, protract, aggravate, light · To what, where: thou, light, darkness, heaven
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Carazan.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (solitude), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 light | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 light | det |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 driven | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 heaven | case |
| 5 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 light | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 society | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 society | cc |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 society | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 society | det |
| 10 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 light | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 beings | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 beings | det |
| 13 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 society | nmod |
| 14 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 17 driven | aux |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 driven | aux:pass |
| 17 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 protract | punct |
| 19 | solitude | solitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 protract | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 protract | aux |
| 21 | protract | protract | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 driven | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hours | det |
| 23 | lingering | lingering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hours | compound |
| 24 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 protract | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 eternity | case |
| 26 | eternity | eternity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hours | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 darkness | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 darkness | cc |
| 29 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 aggravate | obl |
| 30 | aggravate | aggravate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 protract | parataxis |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 horrors | det |
| 32 | horrors | horror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 aggravate | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 despair | case |
| 34 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 horrors | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 protract | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 protract | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | shall · passive | thou | the light of heaven and the society of all beings | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 2 | protract | shall | solitude | hour | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | aggravate | present | darkness | the horrors of despair obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus horror=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | light | heaven | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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